And we join other creators revamping the Red Circle titles, too — Duane Swierczynski and Michael Gaydos on Black Hood, plus Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel on The Fox.

Really excellent company, yeah? Yeah.

All this under the editorial iron fists of Masters Alex Segura and Paul Kaminski, both of whom deserve eternal thanks for letting us two cuckoopants novelists play in their comic book sandbox and create our own “Daughter of the Revolution.”

So, in other words: holy crap.

Adam and I have worked on some other comic ideas before this — honestly, we work well together. He’s a pal and a gifted writer. If you don’t know Adam, you will. (You should familiarize yourself with his work, stat. If you want a free taste, check out Cold War at Tor.com right now.)

More soon (including, I think, some thoughts on gender-flipping and diversity in comics).

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On a side-note, not sure how much input you had on character designs (or what the original looked like…off to Google that soon then), but kudos on the common-sense approach to The Shield’s costume. I think I know where you stand on this based on past blog posts of yours, so a big, big thumbs up to you, Adam, Torres, and the Dark Circle gang. Between this, the Thor redesign, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and the publicity generated by the updated Batgirl costume, it’s pretty awesome to see a far-less lusty male-gaze approach to women heroes of late.

[…] Thor’s a lady. Captain America is a black dude. Ms. Marvel is Muslim. Spider-Man is a Hispanic kid. Groot is a tree. Adam Christopher and I, along with artist Wilfredo Torres, have reimagined the original patriotic superhero — The Shield, once of Red Circle comics, now of the Dark Circle reboot — not as Joe Higgins, but, rather, as a full-figured ass-kicking woman. […]